The ELCA National Youth Gathering in Detroit, MI takes place July 15-19. 35,000 teenagers are expected to be there. I have relatives going. And you can bet they will be taught the ELCA's anti-Biblical views on all the issues, from homosexuality to anti-Israel propaganda, if previous years are any indication. (see here) And today I run across this tweet from the LGBTQ activist organization (ReconcilingWorks) announcing they are coming to greet your youth.

Reconciling Works should pick a more theologically honest symbol for the apostasy it's spreading throughout the (mostly receptive) ELCA. Rather than a rainbow, they should use a picture of the toppled cross at the ELCA's Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis: http://www.desiringgod.org/media/images/blog/1964_steeple.jpg

God tried to warn the ELCA on its August 2009 Convention Day of Apostasy, but a proud Bible-annulling majority of delegates refused His clear warning.

Pastor John Piper wrote shortly after the Day of Apostasy:

. . . "A friend who drove down to see the damage wrote,

"On a day when no severe weather was predicted or expected...a tornado forms, baffling the weather experts—most saying they’ve never seen anything like it. It happens right in the city. The city: Minneapolis.

"The tornado happens on a Wednesday...during the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America's national convention in the Minneapolis Convention Center. The convention is using Central Lutheran across the street as its church. The church has set up tents around it’s building for this purpose.

"According to the ELCA’s printed convention schedule, at 2 PM on Wednesday, August 19, the 5th session of the convention was to begin. The main item of the session: “Consideration: Proposed Social Statement on Human Sexuality.” The issue is whether practicing homosexuality is a behavior that should disqualify a person from the pastoral ministry.

"The eyewitness of the damage continues:

"This curious tornado touches down just south of downtown and follows 35W straight towards the city center. It crosses I94. It is now downtown.

"The time: 2PM.

"The first buildings on the downtown side of I94 are the Minneapolis Convention Center and Central Lutheran. The tornado severely damages the convention center roof, shreds the tents, breaks off the steeple of Central Lutheran, splits what’s left of the steeple in two...and then lifts."

http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-tornado-the-lutherans-and-homosexuality -- The Tornado, the Lutherans, and Homosexuality"

The total damage from the brief tornado: a few uprooted trees, Central Lutheran's toppled cross (which had stood previously unscathed for 90 years), the shredded beer tents beside the church, and some roof tiles at the convention center where ELCA delegates were meeting.

"For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes--so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them."

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Kathy S.

7/11/2015 04:37:09 am

The rainbow is an interesting symbol for the gay movement. What if Noah had brought only male animals, and only gay, lesbian and transgender humans into the ark? I wonder how that would have worked out....

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W. James Young

7/14/2015 09:32:52 am

Thank you for reminding me why I got my sons out of this apostate church.

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Marcia Taylor

7/14/2015 09:49:51 am

My (former*) large, affluent ELCA church just voted on gay marriage. The ultra lib pastors allowed indoctrinated kids as young as 9th grade to vote knowing full well their votes would cancel out the boomers. Results haven't been posted yet but Satan will win. (* I am a former Lutheran after 64 years in the church. I was baptized into the Baptist church last Sunday. Praise God! ELCA no more!)

Psalm 126: When the Lord brought back the captive ones of Zion,
We were like those who dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter
And our tongue with joyful shouting;
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
3 The Lord has done great things for us;
We are glad.

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Dan Skogen

Former ELCA seminary student and former ELCA member who is fed up with the ELCA's consistent mockery of God's Word.

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